E. De Wind. Eindstation Auschwitz.

(HOLOCAUST).

Republiek der Letteren

Amsterdam

1946

First edition. Text in Dutch.

Eddy de Wind (1916–87) was the last Jewish doctor to graduate from Leiden University in the Netherlands during World War Two. He volunteered to work at the Westerbork labor camp under the false impression that his mother, who had been arrested by the Germans, would be saved from deportation. There, he met and married his first wife, Friedel. The couple were deported to Auschwitz in 1943. This is de Wind’s raw, real-time record of the daily struggle to survive, and an account of the horrifying crimes committed by the Germans and their collaborators. It is thought to be the only complete account written within Auschwitz itself. After publication in 1946 it was never reissued, until an English translation appeared in January, 2020. See https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-only-novel-written-at-auschwitz-is-finally-to-be-published-in-english/ and: https://www.mareonline.nl/achtergrond/de-comeback-van-een-auschwitz-dagboek/.